United Nations (UN) General Assembly votes have become the standard data source for
measures of states preferences over foreign policy. Most papers use dyadic indicators of …

Moderates are often overlooked in contemporary research on American voters. Many
scholars who have examined moderates argue that these individuals are only classified as …

Existing approaches to measuring political disagreement from text data perform poorly
except when applied to narrowly selected texts discussing the same issues and written in …

Strong party discipline is a core feature of Westminster parliamentary systems. Parties
typically compel members of Parliament (MPs) to support the party regardless of MPs' …

Consultations with stakeholders are a policy instrument widely used by policy makers to
design policies and prepare legislative proposals across national and supranational …

Country participation in one-state, one-vote forums like the United Nations General
Assembly often reflects underlying power asymmetries and endogenous political processes …

Missing item responses are prevalent in educational large-scale assessment studies such
as the programme for international student assessment (PISA). The current operational …

It seems paradoxical that until recently, developed countries have continued subsidizing
agriculture even though their agricultural sectors had been declining in relative importance …

This article extensively reviews applications, extensions, and models derived from the
Bayesian ideal point estimator. We focus our attention on studies conducted in the United …

We study how electoral incentives affect policy choices on secondary issues, which only
minorities of voters care intensely about. We develop a model in which office and policy …